Antoine Blondeau is Founder and Managing Partner of Alpha Intelligence Capital, a global venture capital fund focused on deep Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning technology companies. Antoine has 25 years of experience in the technology industry, having held senior leadership positions at Good Technology, Salesforce.com and Sybase. Antoine’s career highlights include founding Sentient Technologies, as well as leading Dejima as CEO, the company that powered DARPA’s foundational CALO project that later evolved into Apple’s Siri. Antoine was also COO of Zi Corporation, whose smart text input software was embedded in hundreds of millions of devices.

Dimitri Tsamados is Managing Director at ZRG Partners, a leadership advisory and executive search firm. Drawing from over 20 years of experience in Asia and a long history of working with high growth companies Dimitri advises technology players across Asia. Before joining ZRG Partners, Dimitri was Partner at Eric Salmon & Partners and CTPartners and a founding partner of DTCA. He also founded Amhurst Gordon International, a search firm which he grew across East Asia and sold in 2005.

Rob Bier is Founder and Managing Partner of Trellis Asia, helping entrepreneurs develop high-performing teams and build hyperscaling organizations. Rob also serves as the non-executive chairman of MoneySmart. Rob began his business career at Monitor Group, where he rose to Senior Partner and head of their London office. He co-founded antfactory, one of Europe’s first digital venture capital firms, and founded and led SPARCK. After the acquisition by Citigroup, Rob became an Operating Partner at TowerBrook Capital Partners, a US$10b private equity Firm.